A Step Towards Early Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Linköping University Study

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Alzheimer’s causes great suffering and has a one hundred percent fatality rate. The breakdown of brain cells has been in progress for ten years or more by the time symptoms begin to appear. Currently there is no treatment that can stop the process. Most researchers now agree that one cause of the illness is toxic accumulations -- plaques -- of the beta amyloid protein. In a healthy brain, the cells are cleansed of such surplus products through lysosomes, the cells’ “waste disposal facilities”

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